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Sep 20, 2024 | 
bradroth.medium.com | Brad Roth
Loyal readers of this blog may have noticed an increasing number of posts related to climate change, and the intersection of global warming with health care and medical physics. This is not an accident. I’m growing increasingly worried about the impact of climate change on our society. One way I act to oppose climate change is to write about it ( here, here, here).
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
bradroth.medium.com | Brad Roth
This Wednesday will be the 100th anniversary of Robert Adair’s birth. I wrote a blog post about Adair recently but he is an important enough figure in biological physics, and in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology, that today I will write about him again. This time I will focus on a difference of opinion between Adair and Joseph Kirschvink about the possible effects of weak electric and magnetic fields in biology. In Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill?
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
bradroth.medium.com | Brad Roth
I'm a big Alan Alda fan. As a teenager, I would watch him each week as Hawkeye Pierce on . Besides being an actor, Alda also had a second career as a science communicator, hosting the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers. After writing this science blog for seventeen years, I've decided I should try to figure out what I'm doing. So I read Alda's book If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
bradroth.medium.com | Brad Roth
Yesterday I joined the "White Dudes for Harris" online event [1]. Although I am white and male, I don't look at politics primarily through the lens of race or gender. Nor is my political point of view based on my religion, age, political party, or home state. I'm a scientist, and I view politics through the lens of science. The two most pressing scientific issues impacting the upcoming presidential election are climate change and vaccine denial.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brad Roth |Samuel Wells |D. L. Mayfield |Brandon Ambrosino
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. In the olden days of my youth, I was a hay-baling farmboy. It went like this: My brothers and I would balance on a heaving flat wagon hitched behind a hay baler pulled by an old green tractor.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Brad Roth |Thomas R. Steagald
Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence, a book of daily devotions that combines Bible verses with friendly messages written as if Jesus were speaking, has been one of the bestselling Christian books of the past 20 years. Written by a former Presbyterian Church in America missionary, Jesus Calling and its ancillary products have sold more than 45 million copies since 2004. The book is currently fifth on the Evangelical Christian Publishers bestseller list.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Thomas R. Steagald |Brad Roth
Once I walked into a touristy store in a little town in the mountains. Something about the place spooked me in a crystals-and-crow-feathers sort of way, so I turned around. But before I got out the door, a navy T-shirt emblazoned with a golden bee caught my eye. When the owner invited me to try it on, I responded, “I don’t know what the bee means.” He looked me over and said, “It’s just a bee.”At the beginning of 2 Samuel, things have shifted decisively in David’s favor.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Thomas R. Steagald |Brad Roth
When No Hard Feelings (directed by Gene Stupnitsky) hit theaters in June 2023, critics hailed the return of the adult comedy, which had reigned supreme in American movie making in the early 2000s but since then had atrophied almost out of existence. As an erstwhile connoisseur of the genre, I was ready for a hilarious, mildly inappropriate romp with Jennifer Lawrence to kick off my summer.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brad Roth |Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Thomas R. Steagald
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. In a tense conversation, someone once dropped what they must have figured was the ultimate smackdown for a pastor. They said, “You’re not warm and fuzzy!”Ain’t that the truth. I want to be Athanasius when I grow up.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Brandon Ambrosino |Jonathan Tran |Thomas R. Steagald |Brad Roth
Chiricahua Apache children pose outdoors at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, after their arrival from Fort Marion, Florida in November 1886. (Photo by J.N. Choate/Creative Commons) For most Native American children in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, education was neither a right nor a privilege.
